Love-Hate Relationship

I am in a Love-Hate relationship with Microsoft. I've never liked Microsofts monopoly powerss. But I love them (and Pepsi) for letting me win an Xbox 360. I loved them when I received it and I started playing it. I then was in a state of dislike against Microsoft when my Xbox broke down. They seemed to have an efficent and quick way of getting my xbox fixed and back to me. Well it took 2 weeks to get it back to me and it seemed like it might take longer. I was suppose to get a call from Microsoft on monday telling me the status of my box but instead it showed up in the later afternoon. I could go into a long story about how many times I called them and how many different stories I received on the condition/status of my Xbox. It looked liked it was going to be awhile before I saw my xbox again and it was starting to make me mad.

When I finally received my Xbox on monday there was a letter inside. It said that instead of fixing my xbox, they just sent me an entire new system. It turns out that it was a bit more than that. When I sent my Xbox in I took off the hard drive and all the accessories as I was instructed. When they sent me a new one, they sent the entire premium bundle again, so I received an additonal wireless controller, remote, hard drive, HD cables, power sources, head set, and so on. Buying all that stuff in stores would of set me back a few bucks. So after that week or so of hate towards Microsoft, it is now once again replaced with love. So in a nutshell, after winning an Xbox 360 and having it break and not being able to play it for two weeks... I received at no cost to me the following: Xbox 360, Kameo, Madden 06, 2 Wirelss controllers, 2 remotes, 2 headsets, 2 HD cables, 2 Hard drives, and 2 power cables. Two power cables is proably useless, but it never hurts to have a spare. So maybe you hate me now, I can live with that.

Don't Lie to Me

This final's week has proably been my easiest in terms of tests that I've ever had. Yesterday I went to the Student Union to study all night for a Corporate Finance test. While studying I notice a pattern. A girl would be sitting by herself studying what appeared to be diligently. Then a classmate or friend would sit down and open their book. Then the two women would proceed to never look at the books again. Talking about such things ( Yes I happened to do a bit of listening in) as how bad they have it this finals week, boyfriends, gossip, drinking, etc... This would literally happen for hours while I was studying. I realized that they had not even flipped a page in their books. I bet these same people are the ones that will go back to their place of residence and bitch about how much studying they did and how tough the final was. What these people were doing was not studying, they were kidding themselves. I had barley read or understood my four chapters of fiance and I taught it to myself and a friend during the 7+ of actual studying (with about an hour of talking and breaks and such). I then proceeded to do fine on the final ( I think). I witnessed atleast 3 pairs of girls doing this afore mentioned "studying". Next time sombody tells me they spent all night studying, I will have to call into question their definition of studying.

Online Poker

I've played my fair share of poker. Less than a year ago I decided to try my hand in some online poker with some real money. Partypoker.com had a decent signup bonus so I went there first. After a couple months I was down to only $2.50 left at one table, I thought I was done. Well I turned that into $100 and then cashed out my initial investment + a penny so I could say I made a profit. Over the next couple of months I proceeded to lose the rest of the money but hey, I broke even and got over a hundred hours of entertainment out of it.

I could't stay away for long, so after a month I went to another online poker site. Partypoker was a little to crazy for me and I heard some bad rumors about it so I decided to leave. I joined The Gaming Club Poker Room, which has a nice signup bonus and their independently audited for fairness so that eased my mind on that issue. I once again cashed out my inital investment and was playing with "profit". I was down to $5 and turned that into $52 but then went on a losing streak in touraments ( I like to play $2 tournaments) and now I'm out.

Today one of my friends started up an account at The Gaming Club Poker Room, I get $75 for reffering him and he gets $50, not a bad deal. So he's trying to play his 400 hands to unlock the bonus. So if anybody reads this and they want to sign up for either Partypoker or The Gaming Club Poker Room, let me know so I can send you an email and we both can prfoit from it. Online poker is addicting and since its the finals time of year its proably one of the last things I should be doing, but its fun!

Lucky Me

I always get shit from my friends whenever something lucky happens to me. "Oh Drew you are so lucky" they rant. Ok so it is true that I did win $600 on a scratch lottery ticket last summer. Yes I did just win an Xbox 360 from the every10minutes.com promotion. Even though these are great events in my life they don't happen everday. You don't see all the scratch lottery tickets that I buy that don't win or the hours of dumpster diving that was done to find enough caps to win the xbox. I always tell them to buy a lottery ticket or "gamble" with some sort of contest. You can't win if you don't play. You could try a hundred different things and only win onnce (if your lucky). So I urge all you guys out there to gamble a little. Don't bet the farm on something but take that monetary risk every once in awhile ( I mean like a couple bucks on a scratch lottery ticket or once a year take $100 to a casino and have some fun). Maybe luck will stop by someday.

I thought this would be an adequate first post to my blog. I hope that I can develop a reader base that will find what I have to say to be of interest. Thank you for you time and I hope you visit again.